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- the present invention relates generally to messaging devices or pagers, and particularly to a technique for providing receive signal quality estimates suitable for pagers used in satellite-based communications systems.
- Known messaging or "paging" systems use at least one base station to transmit messages or data to selected system pagers.
- Pagers and other user equipment assigned to a wireless communication system are generally referred to as subscriber units (SU's).
- SU's subscriber units
- a base station Over a forward or "down-link" frequency channel, a base station transmits down-link signals containing information destined to individual SU's whose addresses are also encoded in the down-link signals.
- a wireless communication system capable of global coverage for all subscribers, will soon be available.
- the system known as "IRIDIUM", is presently specified to include mobile telephony and one-way pager service world-wide using a number of communication satellites in low-earth orbit (LEO).
- LEO low-earth orbit
- a satellite-based pager service will overcome certain limitations of terrestrial based systems.
- people traveling with pagers know that paging systems around the world are usually not compatible.
- a satellite based system may operate according to a uniform protocol worldwide.
- a given pager may not always be capable of receiving a message sent from an overhead satellite, however.
- the pager may be inside a building that attenuates wireless messaging signals below a certain threshold needed for accurate reception by the pager. Pager reception is also affected by the size of a pager's antenna, which for ease of portability may not extend from the body of the pager itself. If a pager subscriber has the capability to determine when his or her pager is unable to receive messaging signals accurately from a system transmitter, whether terrestrial or satellite based, he or she can take appropriate steps, e.g., move to a more favorable location where received signal strength exceeds the required threshold. The degree to which a pager can decode signals at less than a defined optimum signal strength, is referred to as the pager's "link margin". In the mentioned IRIDIUM system, pager link margins of about 30 dB are presently expected.
- So-called "receive signal strength” (RSS) circuits have been provided for terrestrial-based paging systems, to alert users that their pagers may be out of range from a base station transmitter, and that message signals addressed to their pagers may have been missed by their pagers.
- RSS receive signal strength
- RSS indicators are implemented in terrestrial-based SUs (including cellular telephone hand sets) so that users can reposition themselves or their pagers for better receive conditions. Due to significant differences between terrestrial and satellite-based communication systems, however, it is not possible simply to incorporate the known RSS measurement schemes into satellite system pagers.
- a pager can always monitor an active messaging frequency channel and evaluate reception conditions by measuring the strength of signals addressed to other pagers grouped in a common geographic area or cell. The time needed for such a receive signal strength evaluation is typically only a few seconds.
- each system satellite services 48 contiguous cells. Only a small number of these cells may be active at any given time, and, at certain times, the 48 cells are illuminated by a satellite antenna only sequentially yielding a duty cycle of 1/48 per cell. Accordingly, the number of signals available to make a receive signal strength or quality estimate in any one cell is limited. Also, in the case of satellite based transmissions, a relatively large amount of signal processing is needed to receive and to decode message signals due to, e.g., Doppler effects in the case of LEO satellites. Thus, for satellite system pagers, relatively few opportunities may exist to provide an indication of receive signal quality promptly.
- terrestrial-based cellular communication systems have link margins typically as much as 80 dB, i.e., enough for an RSS indicator to construct a power meter scale.
- link margins typically as much as 80 dB, i.e., enough for an RSS indicator to construct a power meter scale.
- the limited available transmit power and extremely large path loss typically result in a much lower dynamic range for reception by system SUs. This significantly limits the range of RSS measurements that can be used to construct a power meter scale on satellite system pagers.
- a method of producing a receive signal quality estimate in a subscriber unit (SU) located in a given geographic area covered by a wireless communication system of the kind in which a base station transmits downlink signals in a group of successive time frames to a set of geographic areas including the area in which the SU is located, and each of the time frames has signals aimed at a corresponding one of the geographic areas includes activating a receiver in the SU to listen over a determined listening interval that at least partly coincides with the group of successive time frames, measuring a signal strength of at least one downlink signal received by the SU receiver during the determined listening interval, and producing an estimate of receive signal quality at the SU according to a result of the measuring step.
- FIG. 1 is a pictorial representation of a satellite-based communication system in which the present invention can be applied;
- FIG. 2 shows a pager for use in the system of FIG. 1 and in which the present invention can be embodied;
- FIG. 3 is a timing diagram showing a communication system timing hierarchy for the system of FIG. 1;
- FIG. 4 is diagram illustrating overlapping antenna beam patterns in a satellite-based communication system
- FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a pager according to the invention.
- FIG. 6 shows an example of a receive signal quality estimate graphically displayed on the pager of FIG. 2.
- FIG. 1 shows a satellite-based, global communication system 10 in which the present invention can be applied.
- the system 10 is a LEO satellite-based communication system known as the mentioned IRIDIUM system. It will be understood that the present invention can also be implemented in other kinds of satellite-based communication systems, and in certain terrestrial-based paging systems as well.
- the system 10 comprises a moving constellation of, for example, 66 operational LEO satellites 12.
- the satellites 12 are placed in six distinct planes in near polar orbit at an altitude of about 780 kilometers, and they circle the Earth 14.
- Use of the LEO satellites 12 enables the system 10 to achieve certain link margins permitting effective communication with portable, hand-held SUs including telephones and pagers, using mission antennas 16 comparatively smaller than antennas required on geostationary satellites.
- Each satellite 12 communicates with subscriber units via the mission antennas 16, and with other system satellites 12 using cross-link antennas 18.
- Gateway antennas 20 on each satellite enables it to link with gateway Earth stations 22.
- Each gateway Earth station 22 provides interconnection between the system 10 and public switched telephone networks (PSTNs) all over the Earth 14, by connecting telephone calls or pager messages originating from local PSTNs to the system 10 and its portable SUs, and vice versa.
- PSTNs public switched telephone networks
- the mission antennas 16 associated with each satellite 12 communicate directly with ground SUs, by illuminating each one of a number of substantially non-overlapping regions 24 on the Earth's surface with 48 tightly focused antenna beams 26.
- the antenna beams 26 in each region 24 define contiguous geographic coverage areas or "cells" on the Earth's surface.
- the antenna beams produced by a single satellite 12 thus combine collectively to cover a generally circular area with a diameter of about 4,700 kilometers.
- FIG. 2 shows a pager or SU 40 for use in a wireless communication system that incorporates a messaging or paging protocol, such as the system 10.
- the pager 40 (sometimes referred to as a "messaging termination device" or MTD) has a menu select button 42, and a number of user-operated push buttons 44 for selecting pager features and for scrolling text messages presented on a pager display 46.
- FIG. 3 is an example of a system timing diagram 60 for the system 10 in FIG. 1.
- a system signaling protocol operates on a repeating cycle or "superframe" 62 of 194.4 seconds (3.24 minutes) duration.
- Each superframe 62 is partitioned into nine blocks 64, and each block is divided into four message groups 66 preceded by a known acquisition group 67.
- Each acquisition group 67 and each of the message groups 66 have 48 time frames 68.
- Each time frame 68 lasts 90 milli-seconds, and 20.32 msec of each time frame is allocated for simplex data, e.g., message signals addressed to specific system pager units.
- the balance of each frame 68 is allocated for duplex traffic, e.g., up-link (UL) and down-link (DL) telephone signals.
- UL up-link
- DL down-link
- the system 10 aims a known acquisition signal or "burst" from each satellite 12 to a corresponding one of the 48 cells 26 in each region 24 on the Earth. That is, at least one acquisition burst lasting 20.32 msec is beamed to a given cell 26 during each acquisition group 67.
- FIG. 4 shows a service cell 72 assigned to a Beam A, and another service cell 74 assigned to a Beam B. Dashed line 76 indicates where Beam B's signal strength is 10 db down from its strength in its target cell 74, and dashed line 78 indicates where Beam B's signal strength is 20 db down.
- a given acquisition signal beam e.g., Beam B
- the Beam B strength is about 18 dB down from that of Beam A, but still within a link margin of 30 dB for the pager 40 in cell 72.
- the pager 40 may not always know which one of the 48 time frames in a given acquisition group corresponds to the cell in which the pager is located, the pager may be initially programmed so that its receiver listens only during an assigned one of the nine superframe blocks to reduce the pager's battery duty cycle, and during all 48 time frames of the block's acquisition group to ensure reception of at least one acquisition signal and to obtain synchronization information.
- the mission antennas 16 of the orbiting system satellites 12 are preferably driven to illuminate a given cell with a substantially uniform RF field strength pattern.
- the antennas' radiated fields may also be detected outside their assigned sectors or cells. That is, signals radiated via beam B may be detected in service cells assigned to other beams, including the service cell 72 assigned to beam A and in which the pager 40 is located.
- the field strength of a Beam B signal within the Beam A service cell 72 is relatively attenuated, but can still be within the link margin of a receiver in the pager 40.
- pager 40 remains capable of detecting signals carried on beams other than Beam A, and targeted at cells other than cell 72 in which the pager 40 is located.
- the pager 40 when making a receive signal quality estimate for its own cell 72, the pager 40 also receives signals that are carried on beams aimed at cells (e.g., cell 74) other than the cell 72 in which the pager 40 is located. Details concerning the detection and processing of such signals by the pager 40 to produce a receive signal quality estimate for its own cell 72, are set out further below.
- FIG. 5 is a schematic block diagram of the pager 40 in FIG. 4.
- An antenna element 80 is coupled to an antenna terminal 82 of a receiver/demodulator 84.
- the pager 40 also has a processor 88 which may be in the form of, for example, a digital signal processor (DSP) or a combination of a conventional microprocessor and an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC).
- Processor 88 may also be associated with a read-only-memory (ROM) for storing operating programs and information essential for pager control operations, a random access memory (RAM) that allows the processor 88 to acquire and to process data bearing on pager operations, and such interface circuitry as is needed to couple the processor 88 with address, data, and control bus lines.
- the receiver 84 operates under the control of the processor 88, and may use a piezoelectric crystal or an electronic frequency synthesizer for purposes of tuning to an assigned frequency channel, as is generally well-known in the art.
- Processor 88 also has an associated clock 104.
- the clock 104 is used as a reference to derive information concerning any difference between received system timing control signals and internal pager timing. The pager 40 then compensates for such timing differences.
- the pager 40 of the illustrated embodiment also includes a sound transducer (speaker) 90 coupled to an output of the processor 88 through a driver 92, and the display 46 seen in FIG. 2.
- Display 46 is coupled to an output of the processor 88 through a display driver 96.
- Operating frequencies and demodulation protocols used in the pager receiver 84 correspond to those frequencies and protocols adopted a given communication system in which the pager 40 is to be used.
- the IRIDIUM system operates in a frequency range of 1.6 GHz for communication with ground SUs, and uses both quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) with a channel data rate of 50 kilobits per second, and differential phase shift keying (DPSK) with a data rate of 25 Kbps.
- QPSK quadrature phase shift keying
- DPSK differential phase shift keying
- a frequency division/time division multiple accessing (FDMA/TDMA) scheme is also contemplated for the system.
- a signal quality evaluation stage 100 is also associated with the processor 88 in FIG. 5.
- the stage 100 may be incorporated within the processor 88 or take the form of a separate component or processor which is operatively coupled to the pager processor 88.
- the stage 100 is configured to store and to process signal strength measurements made by the pager receiver 84 for received acquisition signals, and to compute a corresponding receive signal quality estimate in response to a user request.
- the stage 100 modifies or "filters" the signal strength measurements to produce an overall estimate of a current receive signal quality environment for the pager 40.
- the overall estimate is output from the processor 88 (or stage 100) for display.
- a dot-matrix display, an icon display 120 as in FIG. 6, or other equivalent display may be indicated on the display 46 to show several discrete levels of currently estimated receive signal quality conditions.
- a histogram type display such as is commonly used on cellular telephone handsets, a full scale indication may not always guarantee that all message signals destined to the pager 40 will be received, and a minimum scale indication will not always mean that no message signal can be received.
- the scale will only represent a likelihood that message signals will be received and decoded without error as long as the pager 40 remains at a current location and position.
- RSS indications may be implemented in either a "passive" or an "active" mode.
- a passive mode an icon is selected via a user interface such as the menu select button 42 on the pager 40 (FIG. 2).
- the processor 88 then operates to display a last signal quality estimate determined during the pager's normal "wake" time, i.e., the signal strength estimate is based only on acquisition signal bursts received during the pager's assigned block 64. In the system 10, this information may be as much as 194.4 seconds (3.24 minutes) old, however. See FIG. 3.
- a user selects the signal strength icon and the processor 88 activates the receiver 84 to acquire a next available acquisition group 67 within an entire block 64.
- Signal strength measurements and estimates are based on acquisition burst signals received in the next available group 67, and the processor 88 (or stage 100) outputs a signal quality indication.
- An example of one configuration for mentioned passive and active modes is as follows:
- the processor 88 can also store a time history of signal strength measurements made for all received acquisition signals, filter the measurements to reduce channel variation, and produce a filtered estimate for display to the user. Because the pager's initial sleep period may be set at approximately three minutes, however, a last-filtered estimate may be as much as three minutes old. To provide more recent RSS estimates, the above-described active mode allows the user to "wake up" the pager in the middle of a sleep period and to listen during a next available acquisition group, in order to produce a new RSS estimate for the user to view.
- rank ordering Rank received values from largest to smallest, and apply a weighted sum to account for expected fading distributions.
- the pager 40 may be capable of determining its approximate geographic location by processing certain available information including acquisition signal bursts known to originate from different ones of the satellites 12.
- a measured signal power-to-noise power ratio or a measured word error count wherein word errors are determined during received bit error correction processing, can be used as a basis for a displayed signal quality estimate.
- a signal quality estimate is generated once per superframe, by processing or “filtering” estimates of acquisition signal quality determined from signals received during an acquisition group 67 in the pager's assigned block 64.
- a history of RSS estimates from a number of successive superframes 62 can also be maintained and used to generate an "in-range/out-of-range” indication on the user display 46.
- In-range/out-of-range indicators are used on presently available SUs to notify a user when the unit is outside an area of service coverage.
- An exemplary in-range icon 122 is shown in FIG. 6.
- Such indicators are typically generated by the unit's processor and are based on a synchronous/asynchronous condition of the unit.
- a pager is usually considered to be synchronous when it has timing information that allows it accurately to predict (e.g., via timers) when a specific system protocol event such as a start of an arbitrary signal frame, will begin. Because of possible inaccuracies of clocks in the pager, the pager needs to receive system transmissions periodically in order to update its awareness of overall system timing. If the pager does not receive a transmission for a "long" period of time (typically, tens of minutes to an hour), the pager loses it's ability to predict the system protocol timing and is considered to be in an "asynchronous" condition.
- pager 40 may for example implement measures to compensate for frequency drift. Such will allow the pager to operate over relatively long periods of time before entering an asynchronous state. Accordingly, the synchronous/asynchronous condition of the pager may not provide a good indication of its in-range/out-of-range status. That is, the pager 40 may be in a synchronous condition yet still be unable to receive and decode a message signal currently transmitted.
- the processing or "filtering" used in producing an in-range/out-of-range indication according to the invention may be based on the following:
- the pager 40 is "out-of-range”. If at least one of the N most recent superframe signal quality values is above the threshold, the pager is "in-range”. If the threshold is set to indicate no signals received, then such a setting would yield results similar to the mentioned sync/async method, in that the pager must operate over at least N superframes with at least one received signal.
- the in-range/out-of-range determination is decoupled from the sync/async status for the pager, and the determination becomes a function of RSS quality estimates.
- pager 40 may incorporate an "on-demand" signal strength measurement featuring an audible indication of signal strength after a given, e.g., 21.6 second measurement period. That is, an audible feedback feature can be included in the signal measurement process.
- Data bits received and successfully decoded by the receiver 84 are processed (for example, by counting of every N bits) and reproduced as audible "clicks" on the transducer 90 (FIG. 5), e.g., one click for every N bits.
- the user hears a series of clicks resembling the alarm sound of a Geiger counter.
- the clicks may also increase in volume as signal strength increases, and diminish when received signal strength is too weak.
- the audible feedback can be used to "fine tune" the pager's position, or simply to confirm that the pager 40 is in range.
- the mentioned audible clicks can provide an indication of channel utilization.
- the audible signal strength indication feature is not limited in application to satellite-based communication systems, and can be implemented in most current, i.e., terrestrial-based systems as well.
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